Features
Features makes up the core of the magazine with academics and policy-makers who forge the ideas and craft the strategies that define international relations. Centered around the symposium topic for the issue, like Power, Religion, or Health, authors examine different aspects of this common theme and present a variety of opinions on how that issue manifests itself in the realm of international affairs.
Closing the Gap
- Media, Politics, and Citizen Participation
by Janette Kenner Muir
An Imperfect Democracy
- The Case of South Africa
by Tony Leon
Progress, but to What End?
- 2007 Electoral Reform in Mexico
by Jorge Castaneda and Marco Morales
Beyond the Ballot Box
- Social Groups and Voting in Democratic Polities
by Jeff Manza and Ruth Braunstein
The Wisdom of the Masses
- A Philosophical Case for Elections
by Gerald Pomper
The Conservator
- Saving States from Political Bankruptcy
by Gerald B. Helman
Fixing Failed States
- A Cure Worse than the Disease?
by Justin Logan and Christopher Preble
Failing the Failed
- The Bush Administration and Failed States
by Rachel Stohl and Michael Stohl
A New Approach
- The Need to Focus on Failing States
by Stefan Mair
The Slippery Road
- The Imperative for State Formation
by Gabi Hesselbein
An Internal Challenge
- Partnerships in Fixing Failed States
by Daniel Thürer
Failed States - Picking Up the Pieces - Winter 2008:
Addressing Collapse
- An International Responsibility?
Open Economies
- Toward Security and Prosperity
by Robert M. Kimmitt
Targeted Sanctions
- Motivating Policy Change
by William H. Kaempfer and Anton D. Lowenberg
Foreign Aid
- Effectively Advancing Security Interests
by Carol Adelman
The Oil Weapon
- Can It Be Used Today?
by Robert Mabro
Effective Sanctions
- Incentives and UN-US Dynamics
by George Lopez